Like Core Temp and GPU-Z, MSI Afterburner is free to use. Along with being able to provide you with much of the same information that GPU-Z offers you, MSI Afterburner will also let you overclock your GPU, set custom fan profiles, run in-game benchmarks, and even record gameplay video or take in-game screenshots. However, it dubs itself as being a graphics card ‘utility tool’ because of all of the other features it comes with. MSI Afterburner is another graphics card hardware monitoring tool. With GPU-Z you can monitor the temperatures and load on your GPU, as well as your GPU’s clock speed, onboard memory clock speed, fan speed, and the amount of memory being used among other things. GPU-Z is similar to Core Temp, except that instead of monitoring your CPU, GPU-Z will, obviously, monitor your GPU. And, there are a few different handy plugins available for Core Temp that expand its capabilities, including an add-on that allows you to sync your RGB lights to the temperature of your processor or to its load, and a remote server plugin (for remote access), However, for AMD temperatures it just shows a single temperature for the entire CPU.Ĭore Temp also provides you with some basic info on your processor and tells you the voltage and frequency your CPU is running at as well. If you have an Intel processor, Core Temp will also provide readings for the temperature and load on each individual core on your CPU. Core TempĬore Temp is a nice lightweight CPU monitoring tool that will provide you with real-time CPU temperature readings and load percentages on your processor.

The following tools can be used in unison with the benchmarks listed below in order to give you more information while you benchmark your computer.

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